p. 139
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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
— George Gamow
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! " in the context of "p. 139" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "George Gamow" (Quotes, The Creation of the Universe (1952))
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About George Gamow
George Gamow pronounced "GAM-off" (March 4 1904 – August 19 1968) was an American physicist and cosmologist of Russian descent. He developed the Big Bang theory of cosmology, using it to predict the existence of Cosmic background radiation, and his insight that DNA nucleotides probably formed "a triplet code of four symbols" was influential on very important research and discoveries in genetics.
About George Gamow
George Gamow pronounced "GAM-off" (March 4 1904 – August 19 1968) was an American physicist and cosmologist of Russian descent. He developed the Big Bang theory of cosmology, using it to predict the existence of Cosmic background radiation, and his insight that DNA nucleotides probably formed "a triplet code of four symbols" was influential on very important research and discoveries in genetics.
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